Humboldt University Remote Sensing Laboratory

Research Projects of the Geomatics Lab

Spatio-temporal monitoring and assessment of indicators for urban land use changes with remote sensing methods

(German: Raum-zeitliche Erfassung und Bewertung von Indikatoren des städtischen Flächennutzungswandels mit Methoden der Geofernerkundung)

The research is one out of 14 projects of the DFG-funded Graduate Research Program on Urban Ecology – Shrinking Cities (DFG Graduate School 780, phase II; PI: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Endlicher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). It is an interdisciplinary and methodologically focussed piece of research that concentrates on effects of scale on remote sensing data analysis in urban environments. The graduate school is concentrating – regionally speaking – on Berlin and its wider environment. An international network is formed with the IGERT on Urban Ecology in Seattle, USA.

Complex environmental scenarios in shrinking cities require a continuous monitoring, analysis and assessment of relevant processes from a multiscale, multitemporal, and multidisciplinary viewpoint. Remote sensing and geomatics approaches play a vital role in this context, as spatially and temporally integrating data are provided. Moreover, cities have to be examined in the context of their regional situation, as parallel or even contradictory processes may be responsible for actual changes in the urban environment – an aspect that can only be fulfilled by remote sensing approaches.

A major interest is put on derelict urban sites, which can be seen as one of the most prominent spatial features of shrinking cities. A multitemporal approach is mandatory, as dynamic developments cannot be retrospectively monitored otherwise. At the same time, these analyses have to be run at different scale levels to ensure an appropriate representation of multiscale phenomena in shrinking cities. Thematically, biotic, abiotic, and socio-economic issues may be analysed with information from remote sensing data. These may be equally linked to inner-urban, sub-urban, or regional driving forces. Meta-indicators to describe changes with respect to the different aspects are urban vegetation and surface imperviousness, among others. As such, the remote sensing work package is one of the linking bridges between those sub-projects focussing on the natural system and those focussing on societal system in shrinking cities. The remote sensing project is hence closely interwoven with many aspects of other sub-projects, particularly with those concerned with biodiversity, green corridors, groundwater, or follow-up uses of derelict lands.

Project Investigator:
Ellen Diermayer

Funding:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Duration:
04/2005 – 03/2008

Project Website:
http://www.stadtoekologie-berlin.de external Link


			Projects
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